Between August and September, for the seventh year in a row, the ScrittuRa Festival, the festival of literature and reading organized and managed by Matteo Cavezzali will take place again.
It’s a busy schedule of meetings with Italian writers and authors who will meet, in full respect of the social distancing measures, the public in the cities of Ravenna, Lugo, Fusignano and Bagnacavallo, to talk about books and stories.
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ALL THE MEETINGS WILL BE IN ITALIAN. See the full programme on www.scritturafestival.com
RAVENNA
Thursday 27 August
I racconti delle donne with ANNALENA BENINI
Bagno Que Vida – Porto Corsini
Time: 9pm
What do women think? What do they believe in? How many victories, defeats, hopes, secrets do they hide? How much rage and fun? cosa pensano le donne, a che cosa credono, quante vittorie, sconfitte, speranze e segreti hanno dentro di sé? Quanta rabbia e quanto divertimento? From The Waltz by Dorothy Parker to the Envy by Kathryn Chetkovich towards her boyfriend Jonathan Franzen, from Alice Munro remembering the betrayal to the well into which fall the women of Natalia Ginzburg, up to the vertigo of Sappho’s suicide according to Marguerite Yourcenar, from Virginia Woolf to Clarice Lispector.
Free admission
THE PROGRAMME CONTINUES ON www.scritturafestival.com
PAST EVENTS
Monday 20 July
Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra with CLAUDIA DURASTANTI
Bagno Hana-bi Marina di Ravenna
Time: 9pm
Someone takes a lifetime to go in New York, others spend just a few years there, just the time to become who they wanted to be, and then, they go elsewhere.
Free admission
Thursday 6 August
The history of crime novels through 50 detectives with LUCA CROVI
Bagno Que Vida – Porto Corsini
Time: 9pm
What is it that makes crime novels so fascinating? What is the charm of an unsolved case? Luca Crovi analyzes the most flawless investigators of the thriller’s universe, presenting the characters that influenced most crime novel history. Luca Crovi, who met and interviewed a number of thriller and horror stories’ masters, has gathered in these pages their accounts, creating a striking map.
Free admission
Friday 7 August
La sconfitta dell’Occidente told by DOMENICO QUIRICO
Classis Museum – Via Classense, 29
Time: 9pm
The myth of the West, cultural lighthouse from the ancient Greece to the US, seems to have passed his peak. All those certainties that marked the fortune of our societies have shrinked, fallen into pieces; those infinite promises sealed with suberb expressions, such as globalization and liberal societies, have disappeared, devoured by a number of failures and retreats. Introduced by Matteo Cavezzali.
Admission fee: €6
Online tickets: https://www.classealchiarodiluna.it/eventi/
Ticket office: from Monday to Sunday, from 2pm to 6pm at the Classis Museum ticket office
You can also purchase your ticket on the same evening of the event until 9pm
Friday 14 August
Noir: from Edypus to chief of police De Luca told by CARLO LUCARELLI
Classis Museum – Via Classense, 29
Time: 9pm
The master of noir and writer of the cult series ‘Blu Notte’ talks about the noir genre through his character, the chief of police De Luca.
Introduced by Matteo Cavezzali
Admission fee: €6
Online tickets: https://www.classealchiarodiluna.it/eventi/
Ticket office: from Monday to Sunday, from 2pm to 6pm at the Classis Museum ticket office
You can also purchase your ticket on the same evening of the event until 9pm
Thursday 20 August
American Gothic with ARIANNA FARINELLI
Bagno Hana-bi Marina di Ravenna
Time: 9pm
In the belly of the big whale, New York, the rage, the pride, the love of Yunus and Bruna shine like the lantern of a forgotten prophet. This book is the story of a family, its secrets, the challenges they have to face and also a plea to us all.
Arianna Farinelli was born in Rome in 1975. She has been living in the US since 2001. In 2009 she earned the PhD in Political Sciences and she has been teaching since 2010 at the Baruch College della City University of New York. Presented by Matteo Cavezzali and Stefano Bon
Free admission
Friday 21 August
Lessons of happiness of the ancien Greek philosophy told by ILARIA GASPARI
Classis Museum – Via Classense, 29
Time: 9pm
What would happen if all of a sudden we decided to get to know ourselves with the methods of the ancient Greeks? And to do so, if we chose Pythagoras and Parmenides, Epictetus and Pyrrho, Epicurus and Diogenes? We could find out that the lessons and schools of ancient Greece have never closed: an exercise of practical philosophy will teach us how to feel the masters of ‘seize the day’.
Introduced by Matteo Cavezzali.
Admission fee: €6
Online tickets: https://www.classealchiarodiluna.it/eventi/
Ticket office: from Monday to Sunday, from 2pm to 6pm at the Classis Museum ticket office
You can also purchase your ticket on the same evening of the event until 9pm
